Opens a connection to a National Longitudinal Study of the High
School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) cohort data file and
returns an edsurvey.data.frame with
information about the file and data.
readNLS72(
NLS7286_PRI_FilePath,
NLS7286_SASSyntax_Path,
forceReread = FALSE,
verbose = TRUE
)a character value to the main study derived
analyticial data file (NLS7286_REV.PRI).
Located within the REVISED_ASCII folder.
a character value to the SAS syntax file for
parsing the NLS7286_REV.PRI data file.
Located within the SAS_EXTRACT_LOGIC folder.
a logical value to force rereading of all processed data.
The default value of FALSE will speed up the read
function by using existing read-in data already processed.
a logical value that will determine if you want verbose output
while the readNLS72 function is running to
indicate processing progress.
The default value is TRUE.
an edsurvey.data.frame for the National Longitudinal Study of the
High School Class of 1972 longitudinal dataset
Reads in the specified NLS7286_SASSyntax_Path file to parse
the NLS7286_PRI_FilePath file.
A cached data file and metadata file will be saved in the same
directory and filename as the NLS7286_PRI_FilePath file,
having new file extensions of .csv and .meta, respectively.